The Technical Challenge prompts students to complete tasks by using engineering, research, strategic planning, and related skills.
Who doesn’t love a good puzzle? Your team will explore the thrill of finding that crucial piece or clue that brings the whole thing together. Puzzle it out in this season’s Technical Challenge!
Our Scientific Challenge blends the curiosity of scientific research with the creative expression of performance art.
Have you ever heard a story that seemed too amazing to be true? In this season’s Scientific Challenge, your team will show how science can be used to put the impossible to the test. Is the story fact, or is it just a tall tale?
Our Engineering Challenge asks students to explore and apply engineering skills and tools to design and build solutions to specific applications.
Zoooom, whoosh, weeeee! Design and test your very own roller coaster, complete with unexpected twists and turns. Join us for a wild ride as you explore this season’s Engineering Challenge!
Our Fine Arts Challenge helps students develop acting and creative skills through artistic media, theater arts, scriptwriting, and prop design.
Sometimes the story you know isn’t the whole story. Explore what happens when the focus of a story changes. It’s time to put your own twist on a well-known tale in this season’s Fine Arts Challenge!
Our Improvisational Challenge is all about research, spontaneity, and storytelling. Teams receive topics and quickly produce skits.
We all love to root for an underdog. In this season’s Improvisational Challenge, your team will use your improv skills to tell a story about an unlikely hero who rises to a challenge. Will they emerge victorious, or will they crumble under the pressure?
Our Service Learning Challenge is designed to engage students in public service that addresses real-life community issues.
It takes a lot to make the world a better place. You’ve put it all on the line—will it pay off? The clock ticks and the pressure builds in this season’s Service Learning Challenge.
Our Rising Stars for Early Learners Challenge offers simple experiences with the creative process, and it gives young kids (preschool through 2nd grade) a place to work together and make new friends.
Music can bring a story to life. Unleash your inner musician as you create your own instruments and use music to tell a story about friends going on a fantastic adventure. This season’s Early Learning Challenge will be music to your ears!
All teams will have the opportunity to solve an Instant Challenge. These challenges require teams to engage in quick, creative and critical thinking.
In a world with growing cultural connections, increased levels and types of communication, and a new need for real-time teamwork and problem-solving, the ability to solve problems quickly is becoming increasingly critical.
Each team will be asked to solve an Instant Challenge for their DI tournament. The team must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution in a short period of time.
Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two. Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork. Instant Challenges are kept confidential until it is time for teams to solve them.
These summaries are just the beginning!
The information provided in this First Look document is a synopsis of each Challenge and is designed to help your team decide on which Challenge you would like to solve. Your team MUST download and read the full Challenge and Rules of the Road from the Resource Area in order to solve the Challenge successfully. Your team is strongly encouraged to read and use Roadmap as you create your Challenge solution.
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Roller Coaster STEAM Challenge September 30, 2022
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Halloween STEAM Challenge: Candy Corn Cauldron September 22, 2022
Back To School STEAM: Book Tower Challenge September 8, 2022
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